o bonifaci A chant written for Saint Boniface, whose feast day is June 5th. If you’re curious to hear another version, here is Stevie Wishart’s recording (© SW), featuring the beautiful voice of Jocelyn West as the soloist in the beginning.
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Project Hildegard #10 (2)
Friday, June 12, 2020
laus trinitati – in the choral tradition A chant written in honour of the holy trinity, I knew that I wanted this one to be for three voices in its revisited form. It’s turned into a sort of homage to the great choral tradition, with definite echos of Charles Stanford, a composer whose works I […]
Project Hildegard #10
Tuesday, June 9, 2020
laus trinitati I had hoped to record this in time for Trinity Sunday, which was June 7th this year. Still, here it is with a little delay. I was interested to see the symbol that is usually used in the Dendermonde manuscript to indicate a flat (notably before a B) occurs here in front of […]
Project Hildegard #9 (2)
Sunday, June 7, 2020
o ignis spiritus – may the funky spirit be with you The creation process is frustrating, demanding and utterly wonderful. How something starts as one thing and then grows step by step, taking on a life of its own. Someone close to my heart asked me to describe how this one came about. It started […]
Project Hildegard #9
Monday, June 1, 2020
o ignis spiritus paracliti I’ve not heard any interpretations of this one sung at pitch. Most people start it on D or F, or even F#. But there are two pretty similar chants to the Holy Spirit that come one after the other in both the Riesencodex and the Dendermonde manuscript, and this one clearly […]
